Carter Burwell Quotes
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.Carter Burwell
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
Babette March -
One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
Randall Munroe -
The great love of my life is music.
Mandy Patinkin -
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
Malorie Blackman -
If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
Rand Paul -
Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
Oscar Robertson
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.
Karl Malone -
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
A. S. Byatt -
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz -
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Wallace Stevens -
Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
C. V. Raman -
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
Barbara Smith -
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
Jacques Chirac -
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich -
I'm acting in a new show on NBC with Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, which is definitely the scariest thing I've ever done.
Jameela Jamil
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I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.
Jim Parsons -
Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.
Britt Daniel -
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum -
I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.
Brendan Fraser -
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
Carter Burwell